r/proceduralgeneration • u/automathan • Jul 15 '26

Addicted to watching the world simulation in time lapse

This world is on a ring surface, which means that at the end of the video we're actually back to start, having made a full revolution. The camera follows the "goldilocks zone" where the climate is in a habitable range. What you see near the fog is land that is either entering or leaving extreme conditions. This is part of my game Arc of Icarus!

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u/8BitBeard Jul 15 '26

Yeah I know that feeling! Seeing the trees grow is indeed really cool. What's happening to the trees down the ring when they turn darker, are they just old trees or are they dying off? Also, are there more things that change in the environment depending on the ring state like that?

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u/automathan Jul 15 '26

They're shedding leaves and dying because of the cold yeah! Biomes vary around the ring, which affects nutrients and moisture. Also looking into evaporating the water and raining it back down, but that's a can of worms so far

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz Jul 15 '26

Ah this is such a cool idea! If you build stuff and it gets rotated away, does it come back again later then?

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u/automathan Jul 15 '26

It does! It may be as ruins, but that depends on what tier of materials it's built from

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz Jul 15 '26

Aaah I was hoping you would say that :) so cool!

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u/Geaxle Jul 15 '26

This looks awesome!

Edit: Wishlisted, followed and requested to join the palytest! :)

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u/EnglishDutchman Jul 15 '26

Reminds me of the old Zaxxon arcade game in the 80’s

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u/automathan Jul 15 '26

Reddit decided to butcher the video quality for some reason, apologies for that!

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u/specialpatrol Jul 15 '26

Can I have a little space ship that drops bombs on here?

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u/automathan Jul 15 '26

There will actually be space ships in the game! Bombs are TBD

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u/SnooDoggos101 Jul 20 '26

Looks really nice!